Call for Papers
aaai-11 – san francisco
August 9–10, 2011, Collocated with AAAI-11
The Second Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
EAAI-11 provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching AI and using AI
in education across a variety of curricular levels (K-12 through postgraduate training), with a natural emphasis on undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning. The symposium seeks contributions showing how to more effectively teach AI, as well as how themes from AI
may be used to enhance education more broadly (for example, in introductory computing courses or as a means for teaching computational
thinking). We encourage the sharing of innovative educational approaches that convey or leverage AI and its many subfields: robotics,
machine learning, natural language, computer vision, and so on.
The EAAI-11 proceedings will be published by AAAI Press.
Paths for Participation
EAAI-11 provides several paths for participation, including the following:
Full-length papers (6 pages) and presentations for the symposium
Extended abstract/poster contributions (2 pages) highlighting preliminary or ongoing work, or describing an educational innovation
proposed to be presented in a demonstration session
A Model AI Assignments session highlighting innovative, ready-toadopt materials
A workshop for mentoring new faculty, instructors, and graduate
students on teaching
An Educational Video Track within the AAAI-11 Video program
A Student/Educator Track within the AAAI-11 Robotics Exhibition
and Workshop
Submission Topics
EAAI-11 welcomes paper submissions on a variety of topics, including,
but not limited to the following:
Educational resources, including syllabi, assignments, project ideas,
and pedagogical strategies, related to teaching AI
Multidisciplinary curricula highlighting the application of AI in other contexts (computational biology, algorithmic game theory, computational economics, and so on) and / or foundational concepts of
AI in other fields (philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, psychology)
The use of robotics and other tangible media both in AI courses and
elsewhere in the curriculum
Software that assists the teaching / learning process — everything
from software to help visualize search spaces and search algorithms,
to software substrates that can be used by students to do projects
Resources and strategies for teaching specific AI subareas or topics:
machine learning, robotics, computer vision, natural language processing, game playing, and many others
Timetable for Authors
February 22, 2011: Paper submission deadline
April 5, 2011: Notification of acceptance or rejection
April 26, 2011: Camera-ready copy due at AAAI office
Strategies for appropriately situating AI within a wider computer-science curriculum
Ways to incorporate or address popular entertainment and media
portrayal of AI (in movies, news, advertisements, new products, and
so on)
Real-world examples of successful AI deployments, described in sufficient detail to provide case studies and / or serve as useful springboards for other teachers
Innovative means for integrating research as part of coursework in
AI
Ideally, full-length submissions to EAAI-11 should describe well developed ideas and/or pedagogical examples, and should include an evaluation of the work. Papers describing the use of robotics in the classroom
should focus on evaluable pedagogical benefits of their use, and should
be clearly differentiated from papers in the AAAI Robotics program.
EAAI-11 Model AI Assignments Session
As previously noted, EAAI-11 will feature a special session on Model AI
Assignments suitable for use in a variety of class settings. The Call for
Assignments for the Model AI Assignments special session is available
at modelai.gettysburg.edu.
EAAI-11 Organizing Committee
Marie desJardins (chair), University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(mariedj@cs.umbc.edu)
Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College (dodds@cs.hmc.edu)
Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University (hirsh@cs.rutgers.edu)
Tom Lauwers, Carnegie Mellon University (tlauwers@gmail.com)
Todd Neller, Gettysburg College (tneller@gettysburg.edu)
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford (irussell@hartford.edu)
Mehran Sahami, Stanford University (sahami@cs.stanford.edu)
Kiri Wagstaff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (kiri.wagstaff@jpl.nasa.gov)
Additional Information
Additional information about the symposium is available on the supplemental website (eaai.stanford.edu).